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unempathetic

unempathetic adjective: lacking empathy.

Adjective

unempathetic (comparative more unempathetic, superlative most unempathetic)

  1. Lacking empathy.
    • But he could be equally exasperating, obsessive, unempathetic and prone to sudden fits of violence that, invariably, filled him with remorse and self-loathing after the fact.2009 September 24, Sarah Lyall, “Recalling a Home That Really Is a Castle”, in New York Times

Forms of unempathetic

comparativemore unempathetic
superlativemost unempathetic

Origin of unempathetic

From un- + empathetic.

Words formed from unempathetic

Questions about unempathetic

What does unempathetic mean?
Unempathetic means lacking empathy.
What part of speech is unempathetic?
Unempathetic is an adjective.

Words near unempathetic in the dictionary

  1. unemotionalness
  2. unemotioned
  3. unemotive
  4. unemotively
  5. unempassioned
  6. unempathetic
  7. unempathetically
  8. unempathic
  9. unempathical
  10. unempathically
  11. unemphasised

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